The unemployment rate in the U.S. is currently at 4.1%, its lowest level since December 2000.

目前美国的失业率为4.1％，为2000年12月以来的最低水平。

But if you’re in the manufacturing industry, you’ve never seen an unemployment rate lower. In November, the unemployment rate in the manufacturing industry fell to 2.6%, the lowest on record for the series, which dates back to January 2000.

但如果从事制造业，你将看到失业率达到历史新低。11月制造业失业率降至2.6%，为2000年1月以来的最低纪录。

Jed Kolko, an economist at job site Indeed, notes that in 2017 manufacturing employment has grown 1.5% from last year, right around the same pace at overall economic growth. In 2016, manufacturing employment declined.

Since 2000, however, overall employment in manufacturing has declined about 25%, falling from around 17 million at the beginning of the century to around 13 million today. Workers leaving the industry or the workforce altogether, and therefore no longer counting as unemployed manufacturing workers, has no doubt contributed to some of this decline.

This new low for manufacturing unemployment, however, comes during a year in which President Donald Trump has repeatedly harped on his desire to kickstart the sector.

制造业失业率创下新低，然而这一年里特朗普总统不停重复要振兴该行业。

And amid a year that has seen the stock market soar to record highs and the economy enjoy some of its strongest overall growth in years, the administration will no doubt see this data point as affirmation of their economic initiatives boosting the manufacturing industry.

在这一年里, 股市飙升至创纪录高点，经济也经历了几年来最强劲的整体增长，政府无疑会视这一数据为对其推动制造业的经济举措的肯定。

Economists at UBS noted that most of the overall gains in manufacturing employment came in the fabricated metals and machinery industries, which are benefitting from an energy-led boost in overall capital investment from businesses. After declining alongside the 2015 plunge in oil prices, business investment has surged over the last couple of quarters.

But Friday’s report largely indicates that in contrast to the last economic expansion, the U.S. manufacturing base is growing, or as Joe Quinlan, chief market strategist at U.S. Trust, wrote in a note this week, “the death of American manufacturing has been greatly exaggerated.”

SlackJawedYokel 6 hours ago
He wasn't wrong. The manufacturing unemployment rate being low doesn't mean manufacturing jobs moved back from overseas. You have to be think before you draw your conclusions.

他错了，制造业就业率下降不代表工作从海外回来。得出结论前你必须动脑子。

Tiredof 6 hours ago
Jobs are still leaving.

工作仍然在离去

Luke 5 hours ago
More Obama lies:
"If you like your doctor, you can keep him"
"Health insurance costs will go down after ACA is passed."
"Drilling won't solve the country's energy problems."
"The Keystone pipeline is a bad idea."

Scott 6 hours ago
I remember him telling us we should get used to it. I also America sending him and his party packing.

我记得他告诉我们，我们应该习惯它。我们美国人让他和它的民主党打包滚蛋了。

LLL 5 hours ago
Guess what, they didn't come back. With the loss of 7,000,000 US manufacturing jobs since 2000, there are fewer positions to fill.

猜猜看，他们没回来。自2000年以来, 美国制造业失去了700万工作岗位，要补充的职位也越来越少。

Don 5 hours ago
He was right they have not come back.

对的，工作还没回来。

C 5 hours ago
"Since 2000, however, overall employment in manufacturing has declined about 25%, falling from around 17 million at the beginning of the century to around 13 million today." You know, if you actually read the article you might be able to make a comment that had some credibility.

Ron 6 hours ago
@c ADP reported yesterday 40k NEW manufacturing jobs created. Funny thing was during the campaign your jug-eared leader said Trump couldn't even pull this off without a magic wand. Last I knew he was flapping his jug ears in an attempt to find Trump's wand.

Banana 6 hours ago
I also remember Obama telling factory workers to move on when they lose their jobs. And that it is their fault for not keeping up with the times by learning technology

我还记得奥巴马时告诉工厂工人当他们失业要继续前进。并且说没有学习技术跟上时代
是他们的错。

Merry Christmas 6 hours ago
NObama = Best Christmas Ever!

没有奥巴马就是最好的圣诞节。

STFURS 6 hours ago
THEY DIDN'T, Read the article, were still at record lows that is why the rate is so low...

工作没回来，读下文章，仍在很低水平，这也是为啥比率很低。

history 101 6 hours ago
R - Those jobs did not return. These are new jobs. By the way, be specific, WHAT LEGISLATION DID DONALD TRUMP INVENT AND INITIATE TO IGNITE THE ECONOMY SPURNING JOB GROWTH?

R - 那些工作没回来。这些是新职位。特别说下。特朗普发明并启动了哪些法规来推动经济并拒绝就业增长？

Heather 6 hours ago
STFURS I guess you couldn't comprehend what you read? LOL
"Economists at UBS noted that most of the overall gains in manufacturing employment came in the fabricated metals and machinery industries, which are benefitting from an energy-led boost in overall capital investment from businesses. After declining alongside the 2015 plunge in oil prices, business investment has surged over the last couple of quarters.
But Friday’s report largely indicates that in contrast to the last economic expansion, the U.S. manufacturing base is growing, or as Joe Quinlan, chief market strategist at U.S. Trust, wrote in a note this week, “the death of American manufacturing has been greatly exaggerated.”

Progress 6 hours ago
@BenjaminB Why are you counting from JANUARY 2009 when A) we still had 4 million jobs to be lost over the next 9 months and B) Obama's first budget didn't take effect until October 2009. How many manufacturing jobs were there in OCTOBER 2009??? Go look, as I already know the answer. You won't like it....

David 6 hours ago
Hey history 101, it's called optimism. Once the dark cloud from Obanana left and Trump won, we knew that he would start rolling back a lot of stifling legislation. That's what Trump did. He also promised tax cuts and a cut in corporate taxes. Here in SE WI he helped convince FoxConn to locate here and bring 13,000 jobs. Need I go on because I can. A lot of it is the optimism that Trump is working hard to turn this economy around. If you believe what the lib-turd media is spewing then you would've missed the BEAUTIFUL stock run up this year. Yes, my portfolio is kicking butt. It's the economy that's going to keep Trump rolling and NOT you small minded Obama-turds.

Rod Daman 6 hours ago
@Ray
Look at the graph and LOOK at the steady climb in manufacturing jobs since 2009. Now try to explain how Trump managed that!

@Ray 看一下图表，再看一下制造业职位自2009年的稳定上升。现在解释一下特朗普怎么做到的？

Rod Daman 7 hours ago
@David
Hey David - It's called rebuilding. Look at the low point in the manufacturing employment curve and look at the steady climb since 2010. Who was President then? Oh, that's right - Obama and his shadowy 'left hand'.
See the "yuuuge" bump in employment after Trump? Me neither - because it isn't there. You delusional, circle-walking wind-up toy.

@David 嗨--这叫做重建?？纯粗圃煲蹈谖磺叩牡偷愫妥源?010年的稳定上升。当时总统是谁？啊，对了—奥巴马和他的阴影中的左手。

看到特朗普后面的跃升吗？没有，因为没有啊。你在妄想，发条男孩。

Rod Daman 7 hours ago
@heather
Let's see, who was talking about the graveyard where American manufacturing was 'buried'? Trump.

@heather 看看吧，谁在谈论美国制造业被 "埋葬" 的墓地？特朗普。

Rod Daman 7 hours ago
@Banana
I remember being chased through my basement by a monster made of buckets from the storage room. But that, like your 'memory' is just a dream. The difference is that I can tell reality from delusion.

@Banana 我记得在储藏室里被一个由水桶制成的怪物追过地下室。但是，你的“记忆”只是一个梦。不同的是，我可以从妄想中找出现实。

Gina 7 hours ago
yes

是的

Theo the Cat 7 hours ago
Yes. He was correct. We are still down 4.5 million manufacturing jobs since 2000.

是的，他是对的。自2000年以来，我们的制造业岗位仍然减少了450万。

MAXTHEKATT 7 hours ago
Nine (9) months after Obama took office, myself and several thousand others with the same company where laid off...... permanently! Thank You Barrack Obama! Trump has now been office 12 months. The economy is booming. Jobs everywhere. The GDP is now over 3 percent. Retail sales setting new records. The stock market headed for a new all time record high of 20,000. The fastest recovery in 50 years in less than 12 months. Thanks to President Trump.

J Stone 6 hours ago
@MAXTHEKATT You can thank the Bush recession dumbazz. You're either high, stupid or both.
Between 2009 and 2016, GDP growth reached at or above 3% on a quarterly basis about eight times under Obama..
Obama handed Trump an economy that was close to what economists consider full employment. The unemployment rate on Inauguration Day was 4.8%, and it has fallen since then, to 4.4% in June.
The average of 162,000 net new jobs a month so far this year is off last year’s figure of 187,000.
The highest monthly job gain under Trump -- 232,000 -- was exceeded in 28 separate months on Obama’s watch.
job gains under Trump were actually lower than each of the last six years of February-to-August job gains for Obama, except for one year -- 2012.
At the current pace, the U.S. would add about 1.9 million jobs in 2017. It would be the first time since 2010 the figure was below 2 million.
That would continue a downward trend since the economy added nearly 3 million net new jobs — an average of 250,000 a month — in 2014 in THE BEST YEAR OF LABOR MARKET GROWTH SINCE THE LATE 1990s.
When President Obama took office on Jan. 20, 2009, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) slumped to 7,949.09, the lowest inaugural performance for the Dow since its creation
"The Dow Jones Industrial Average's performance [under Obama] of 120.6% ranks as the sixth best of any US President since 1900
Obama administration has overseen an impressive upswing in the stock market. As of the end of Obama's term on January 20, 2017, the Dow Jones had more than recovered from its January 2009 slump, resting nicely at 19,732.40 for the day, more than double what it was on inauguration day.

Kenneth 7 hours ago
Went to its lowest in November. Guess who was still president in November?

11月达到最低点。记得当时谁是总统吗？

3 7 hours ago
Obama didn't want those jobs to come back. He's the type of Democrat that wants people dependent on him, and big government.

奥巴马不希望那些工作回来。他是典型的民主党人，希望人民依赖他，建立大政府。

Michael 7 hours ago
All the red tape and regulations Trump has gotten rid of has helped manufacturing

所有已被特朗普摆脱的繁琐规则都已帮助了制造业

Oscar 7 hours ago
and they are not.

他们不是

Jennifer 7 hours ago
@3 Then why is it, red states have the most government dependent citizens in our union?

@3 那为什么在美国那些共和党州的公民最依赖政府？

Living My life 7 hours ago
he was right you'll see that soon enough

他是对的，很快你就会看到。

Living My life 7 hours ago
@tj like what?

@tj 比如？

Living My life 7 hours ago
@MAXTHEKATT and what job did you lose? Was it Obama's fault or did the company you worked for move overseas?

@MAXTHEKATT 你失去了什么工作？是奥巴马的错误还是你工作的公司到了国外？

Tucker 7 hours ago
He was right

他是对的

hello hello 7 hours ago
who wants to be slaving for chump change when you can go to school and make real money and not be a line ape

当你可以去上学赚大钱而且不须在一条线上，谁愿意为一点零钱当奴隶

Jennifer 7 hours ago
@MAXTHEKATT You have no understanding of how the system works. W. is the reason your company went bust, the market will crash, again, retail sales are not soaring, retail is hemorraging jobs. Thank trump for selling off 2 million acres of national heritage land, thank trump for taking your state tax deduction, thank trump for making the middle east even more unstable.

D 7 hours ago
@Jennifer the new tax plan -- it is projected to cut revenue significantly, likely increasing the deficit by $1.456 trillion from 2018 to 2027, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation and Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
so America can go bankrupt and we can thank trump for that

D 7 hours ago
@Michael --lol---you do not care of the facts only the bs huh--manufacturing job are dropping like crazy —read the FACTUAL GOVT REPORTS

@Michael 哈哈哈，你不关心事实，制造业的工作在疯降，读下真实的报告。

ECOOLEY 7 hours ago
Remember when they said most supporters were uneducated and too stupid to realize they voted against their own interest. Not shocking that their inability to process this article has them making such bonehead comments and gathering dotards to give thumbs up. Smh reread the article and come again. Wow

NoCovfefeHere 6 hours ago
@MAXTHEKATT your layoff had nothing to do with President Obama. You can thank President Bush for that. The economy grew from an absolute low in 2008 until now. This is not all thanks to Mr. Trump. President Obama was there for 8 years and is responsible for some of that booming economy. Of the 103 months of the current bull market, only 11 are attributable to Mr. Trump, the rest are President Obama. In his second term, the Dow went from 12,720 to 19,732. So either you are new to investing or you just don't know of what you speak.

Paul 7 hours ago
Well r, those jobs are still NOT COMMING BACK! And it's like this, for example, that new BILLION dollar auto plant now being built in the US? Well tool, it was planned for 2 years before "the drumpf" took office! Ya know,. back when Obama was President! So no "the drumpf" cannot be praised for that plant! And as that plant will need employees, again, NOPE "the drumpf" cannot get paise for those hundreds of new jobs! Remember, Employees automatically come with a new auto plant! So actually then, gee President Obama is responsible for the new auto plant & all those new employees then!